. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. that one or more apples will be located toward the trunk or center of the tree, while others will be on the side of the cluster fully exposed to the light. It might be expected then that the apples located on the side of cluster facing the center of the tree would have some- what longer stems than those on the fully exposed side, and this is often the case, as shown by the illustration, F"igure 2. When the central apple of a cluster fails to set the remaining apples have stems of a more uniform length, as illustrated in Figure .S. With some varieties of stra
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. that one or more apples will be located toward the trunk or center of the tree, while others will be on the side of the cluster fully exposed to the light. It might be expected then that the apples located on the side of cluster facing the center of the tree would have some- what longer stems than those on the fully exposed side, and this is often the case, as shown by the illustration, F"igure 2. When the central apple of a cluster fails to set the remaining apples have stems of a more uniform length, as illustrated in Figure .S. With some varieties of strawberries such as Wm. Belt the first fruit of a cluster to set and ripen, or the "king berry" as it is sometimes called, is distinctly different in form from the other berries of the cluster. And this is true of some varie- ties of apples in a more limited degree. It can be noticed in F^igure 4 that the central apple of the cluster is more roundish oblong and less roundish conic than the others. Again, in Figure 5 the central Barry apple is much less ribbed than the others. The form of an apple, including the length and thickness of the stem, is determined to a considerable extent by. 5—Cluster of Barry Apples. Central ap])le not as distinctly ribbed as other two. its location upon the spur and upon the tree. This applies particularly to such as Baldwin, King, Chenango, Barry, King David, and undoubtedly to other varieties not observed by the writer. Gravenstein, Smith Cider, Rome and Ben Davis, however, show a much greater degree of uniformity of stem. In some seasons such varieties as Bald- win would have a larger proportion of short or long-stemmed apples, depend- ing upon the weather, or according to whether the central apple of a cluster set and persisted or failed to do so. Botanically the short-stemmed Baldwin or King, as grown in New Jersey, is just as typical as the long-stemmed specimens and vice versa, so if we judge apples upon that basis it would
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